Feb 13, 2015

We all know that Saudi Arabia
is our brother country and we have very strong political and economic ties with each other but
recently it is criticize that special aid from Saudi Arabia for madrasas of
Pakistan will be properly channelized and will only be given after the government’s
approval. Saudi embassy criticized that on media that it is calming false reports that funds for Pakistani madrasas are being used for extremisim. Embassy spokesperson further added
that if they receive the request for funds from any particular mosque or madrasa, they
take proper permission from Government of Pakistan and transactions in this
regard are fully transparent. Saudi embassy gave these remarks after being
accused by the Riaz Hussain Pirzada, Federal Minister for Inter-Provincial
Coordination that Saudi money is being used for spreading terrorism across the Muslim
world. Minister further stressed that funding from Saudi Arabia must be restrained
in order to bring peace and stability in the region. A report on this issue was
presented in front of Senate members during the January 30Senate session,
report was developed by Baligur Rehman, Minister of State for Interior, in this
report he said that some Middle Eastern
countries (Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates and the Iran) are
funding three provinces’ religious seminaries. This report was formerly
compiled by the provincial Inspector Generals. The second main highlighted
point in this report was that twenty three of the religious seminaries in
Pakistan are receiving this aid, which could be used or might being used for extremism.
This matter has swelled too much during previous some days, now government has
to take the right action in a way which eliminates the terrorism and must not affect
our close relationship with Middle Eastern countries.